A L Thorpe (67 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo, cloth-gilt, xv, 206pp., 177 b/w plates. First edition. VG to VG+: clean cloth, very light wear to the head and foot of the spine, just slightly touched corners; solid hinges & joints, clean edges, clean text and illustrations.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by 1920's LA traffic COVER PHOTO (illustrator). first edition"; FIRST PUBLISHED.". VERY GOOD CONDITION,.clean, solid, bright; black & dark green cover TITLES ON b&W COVER, SHOWING Hollywood vine.with 1960s era photo of same area. ; 112pg pages; "YES, I AM EXACTLY LIKE THE CHARACTERS IN MY BOOKS.chandler era street scenes used in various movies with a great deal of commentary on various locations used.and mentioned in the stories.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Painted Cover Art! (illustrator). PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 154 pages."Marooned in an alien outworld for beyond space, Captain Braid would have preferred death." >> Scuffing to covers; slight spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 154 Pages; Printed in Canada; * Goodreads; Captain Alex Braid was alone in hyper-space. Hyper-space. Deep space. Deep in every cosmically, mentally, mathematically-the bottom of all depth and the zenith and nadir of the universe itself. All his crew was gone. He tried to recollect the engineer, the physicist, the astrogator, and the young, blue-haired beatnik girl Ursala with her incredible mind.; Was the voyage which had begun as a well-organized expedition to end in an extra-galactic nightmare? ** Name written at Top of Front End-page; cover creasing; surface scratching to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large 8vo, Bound in the original cloth binding with the original dust jacket, Minor edge wear & minor marks to jacket, Private bookplate to front paste-down, Light browning to endpapers, Overall a very good copy. All books are posted in a sturdy book box. Overseas orders may require extra postal costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. light foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with 8 color plates and 177 monochrome plates. 206pp 2.14lb 10.0x6.3x1.1in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Signed by Franklin Barrett on the title page. Overall good condition some staining to cloth cover, wear and repair to dust jacket, internally sound and clean. Bookplate of Joan Shaw (a prominent Derby Porcelain collector) to endpaper plus note "Begin of collection". 206 pages plus black and white plates. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG- (Light wear to dj). Green cloth with gilt lettering. White dj with color illus. and black lettering. xv + 206 pp. with 8 color and 177 bw plates. A full history of the Derby china factory and its principle manufacturers. Appendices include employee biographies, factory marks, pattern books, chemical compositions, manuscript excerpts, sale catalogues, contracts, lists of groups and figures, and a list of figures attributed to Andrew Planche. Part of The Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Collectors Book Club edition, 8vo, 206 pp, photo illustrations; pretty comprehensive work; couple of minor insect (?) marks on ffep o/w VG Copy in VG DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear. Undated.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, stapled spine, card covers and pages have been cut down at bottom edge, text not affected, no inscriptions. 20 pages, illustrations in the text.

Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering. White dj with color illus. and black lettering; Mylar cover. xv + 206 pp. with 8 color and 177 bw plates. A full history of the Derby china factory and its principle manufacturers. Appendices include employee biographies, factory marks, pattern books, chemical compositions, manuscript excerpts, sale catalogues, contracts, lists of groups and figures, and a list of figures attributed to Andrew Planche. Part of The Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain. VG/VG (Dj clipped but still has price, both UK and US; former owner's name in ink on ffep; else NF/NF).

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Good condition, no damages nor marks inside.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Cloth in mylar protected dust jacket. 206 pp., plus 177 illustrated plates at rear. A extensive and exhaustive study of the Derby factory. Contains such items as the numerous Derby marks and a definitive list of figures attribted to Andrew Planche. There are copious biographical notes on the factory artists. A clean, tight copy. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Very Light wear to extremities. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). First. Color frontispiece and 7 other color plates; 177 black and white photographs and text figures. 206pp of text. Tall 8vo, gilt- lettered green cloth, d.w. London: Faber and Faber, (1971). First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. "A comprehensive study." -- Arntzen/Rainwater, P. 321. An exhaustive examination of the longest continually operating porcelain manufactory in England. With extracts from many contemporary documents and a bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green Cloth Boards with Burgundy blocked title slip and gilt titles to spine, 150 x 160 mm approx. xvi + 206pp. Colour Frontis + 7 other full colour plates and 177 monochrome illustrations on 96 glossy plates all as called for. Other figs in text including factory and workmen's marks. First Edition 1971. Foreword by R J Charleston. Faber's Pottery and Porcelain Monograph series. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - mild colour shelf rubbing to cloth at extremities, book seller printed label to front paste down, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- minor shelf rubbing to extremities, price clipped. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.

Condition: Good. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 16cm), 95pp. Large folding map, 2 folding plans. Original black cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Ligth spotting and tanning of the endpapers, ownership inscription, long repaired tear to the folding map. Overall, this book is in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine book in clean, fresh green cloth covers with bright gilt titles to maroon panel on spine. Internally fine and free of inscriptions; profusely illustrated. The dust jacket is very good+; price clipped; light age toning. An attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. Reprint. Type: Z 206 pp, 177 unpaginated b/w photographic plates at rear. 1973 Collector's book club edition - the publisher on the spine of the wrapper states 'Faber and Faber'. No inscription. Original publisher's cloth - with gilt embossed burgundy title block. A slight bump to the tail of the spine.Some foxing to the upper fore-edge. The wrapper has been price-clipped. The outer laminate is lifting at the head and tail of the spine of the wrapper with some rubbing. Several tiny soil marks to the wrapper at the tail of the spine. A very good, tight, clean copy.

xvi+206pp + 177 illustrations on b/w plates. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Derby Porcelain 1750-1848, by Franklin A. Barrett and Arthur L. Thorpe. Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1971. 1st edition. Green cloth hardback with dustjacket. Illustrated. Very good overall - shelfwaer and discoloration to dustjacket. Pages nice and clean with some age discoloration around the edges. xv + 206pp + Plates. Profusely illustrated with 8 Colour Plates and 177 Monochrome Plates. Dimensions: 255mm high x 162mm wide x 30mm deep.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. ix, [i], 69, [i]pp. Printed paper wrappers. With A.N.L. Munby's bookplate on the upper cover. Presentation from Thorpe to Munby.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 56pp. Printed paper wrappers. Presentation from Thorpe to Munby.

First edition. Binding tight; some wear at head & foot of dust jacket spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket, Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition tall medium octavo, black cloth, foxing to edges, otherwise fine condition, two fold out and other town plans, near fine fold out map showing inland waterways, completed and proposed land reclamation and rivers, 95 pages. Note: publication date gleaned from text where current date is referred to as 1931. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4to (25.5 cm), front., XV, 206 pp, 177 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities). An exhaustive survey of the Derby china factory, the product of assiduous research into large corpus of documents. Many substantial extracts from these documents are reproduced together with the numerous Derby marks and a definitive list of figures attributed to Andrew Planché. Included biography of the factory's artists.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 17 x 27 cms. A vernacular dwelling with historic timber framing and picturesque massing. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; PRINTS : Buildings & Places. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.